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SEA.SONED STOCKS AVAILABLE JOHNSON SUTURE CORPORATION 5001 West 67th Stl'eet · Chicago 38 JULY 29, 1944 structive effect of these, according to the author, was only slightly great- er than that of a few booby traps, both plain and fancy, that Wilson laid for himself. The conclusion of the book, which is that "statesmen must ever remember that mankind is shortsight- ed and perverse, and that he who would make haste too fast will almost inevitably fail," seems a little more cautious than it need have been, and is not really worthy of a most excel- lent recapitulation of the military and diplomatic history of the first World War. THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS, by ClIfford W. Ashley (Doubleday, Doran). Here's a book which, if ac- companied by a piece of tWIne, ought to keep a lot of people happily occu- pied from now until Christmas. Mr. Ashley, in one of those strange pas- sions that sometimes take possession of people and are harder to shake off than malaria, has assembled an en- cyclopedia of knots, telling how they began, what they are used for, and how to tie them. This handsome vol- ume contains seven thousand draw- ings, describing thirty-nine hundred knots, and is just about the best piece of escape literature that has come along in some time. SLEUTHING IN THE STACKS, by Ru- dolph Altrocchi (Harvard University Press). About the unravelling of scholarly mysteries-the unmasking of literary forgeries and the tracking down of the sources of fictional plots. One of the most interesting parts deals with a search for the origins of the Mowgli- Tarzan legend of the child brought up by the animals. .,A.MERICAN DIALECT DICTIONARY, by Harold Wentworth (Crowell). An interesting compilation of material for the great American lexicon that is yet to be. This dictionary con- fines itself mainly to "localisms, re- gionalisms, and provincialisms." It contains "more than fifteen thou- sand terms, a large proportion of which are not now found in any other dictionary or reference work, and sixty thousand quotations." MY 5TE..R Y AND CR.IME.. THE KNIFE WILL FALL, by Marten Cumberland ( Doubleday, Doran). The police in prewar Paris find them- selves temporarily stumped by a mur- derer with a remarkably catholic taste in victims as well as a gift for persuading young women to leave home. The Commissaire eventually solves his case, but not before he and his colleagues have tried out all the well-known tricks of detection and a few very unusual ones, too. A com- plex story, set against a solid, authen- tic-sounding background. JETHRO HAMMER, by Michael Ven- ning (Coward-McCann). Mr. Hammer, a wealthy New York cur- mudgeon, hires Melville Fairr, a pri- vate detective, to protect him from his many potential murderers, all of whom have excellent reasons for wanting to do away with him. The detective isn't able to prevent the murder, but he does 3:n excellent job afterward in chasing down clues which reach back as far as twenty years and which include a rather high percentage of red herrings. For read- ers who like a slow tempo. No BONES ABOUT IT, by Ruth Sawtell \Vallis (Dodd, Mead). The mem- bers of three small-town Massachu- setts families, all closely interrelated and highly unpleasant, run into trou- ble when they try to suppress a scan- da!. The resulting murders are cap- ably solved by Lieutenant Lund, of the local police, who combines ro- mance with his detection. Better than ((Too Many Bones," the last mystery by this author, who is obviously on her way up BERMUDA CALLING, by David Garth (Putnam). Zach Taylor, ostensibly a young lawyer on vacation, goes down to Bermuda to investigate the rumor that something big in the line of espionage is brewing there. When some of the less innocuous residents of that island figure out that Taylor has something to do with Military Intelligence, they make his sojourn a strenuous one. All right, even though not too plausible. THE BOOK OF THE ÐEAD, by Eliza- beth Daly (Farrar & Rinehart). Henry Gamadge, a pleasantly un- assuming private detective, takes on what seems to be a simple investiga- tion involving a young man who died of leukemia. Gamadge, work- ing chiefly on clues furnished by mar- ginal notes in an old copy of "The Tempest," finally finds himself sad- dled with a formidable case that has ramifications in Vermont, Long Is- land, and New York. NIcely told, if not well assembled. . . . . worshiping the Duce whom they though t would lead them to ne"T and greater triumphs.-Times Magazine. The Eternal Whom in the Eternal City.